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"DAVID: Are you ready to play the game? TEAMS: Yeah! DAVID: Okay. We're gonna give the first players a chance to pick up some extra seconds, so partners, we'll see you later."

―David Ruprecht (at the start of the Question Round)

The Question Round is the front game on Supermarket Sweep. Contestants are asked questions relating to products found in a supermarket and correct answers were worth extra time which was used during the Big Sweep.

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Staying true to the original version, all three teams are instantly given a base time of one minute and thirty seconds (1:30) at the beginning of the game.

The question round is divided up into three segments. In the first, three contestants play games involving items found in a supermarket, in the second, their teammates get their shot at answering questions, and in the third, the Round Robin, teammates rotate after each question. Correct answers add time to a players' clock and the time acquired is used during the "Big Sweep", in which three players, one from each team, is give to run wild in the aisles trying to amass the largest total of items as they can. The team with the highest total after all bonuses and groceries are tallied up go on to play the Bonus Sweep, when they can play for $5,000 cash.

In the original 1965-1967 version, the question round consisted solely of Pricing Games, in which contestants would try to guess the exact retail price of an item or a combination of items. The player whose answer was closest to the actual price of the item not only won that item but also 15 seconds of time that their "runners" could spend out in the market in the "Big Sweep". Later versions would add many more Pricing Games including Higher or Lower and Item on Sale.

Players were asked a series of questions, usually with a specific brand of grocery items used as answers, and each question was worth 10 seconds. In each round, the questions followed a specific format, which varied between rounds and episodes. The formats used on the show included: